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Three people were shot dead by security forces in Bangladesh Monday as violent protests continued over the death sentencing of an Islamist opposition leader for war crimes.
The latest clashes were sparked by protesters who blocked a road and threw stones at policemen in the southwestern district of Satkhira, according to local police officials, who added that the police shot at the crowd in response.
Monday's deaths bring to at least 65 the number of people killed in the protests led by Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamist opposition party. The Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies are trying to enforce a three-day general strike until Tuesday to protest the government's handling of war-crimes trials and the use of live ammunition against protesters.
The trouble erupted on Feb. 28, when a war-crimes tribunal—tasked with investigating atrocities committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan—sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader and a popular preacher, to death for murder, rape and religious persecution.
Mr. Sayeedi, accused of leading an Islamist militia that persecuted local people and collaborated with the Pakistan army, said he isn't the person named in the charges, and that it is a case of mistaken identity.
The Jamaat-e-Islami and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party say Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is using the tribunal to target her political enemies. They point out that the 10 people indicted on a charge of war crimes by the tribunal are opposition politicians, eight of them from the Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of the BNP.
The government denies the charges.
Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan in March 1971. The Indian army intervened to force the surrender of Pakistani troops after a bloody nine-month war pitting Bengali fighters against Pakistani soldiers.
Prime Minister Hasina, daughter of wartime political leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, set up the war crimes tribunal two years ago to investigate atrocities committed during the 1971 conflict—a move she said would bring closure to victims and their families.
The protests over the war-crimes trials have worked to Ms. Hasina's political advantage so far, some analysts charge, shifting the nation's attention away from criticism by opposition parties that Ms. Hasina is creating roadblocks to fair elections.
Last year, Ms. Hasina scrapped a system under which a nonpartisan caretaker administration was going to oversee elections, leading to the opposition threatening a boycott of parliamentary polls set for early 2014.
Ms. Hasina denies all accusations.
The continuing political unrest could damage an already fragile economy by discouraging investors. "The economy is under stress, and investment will drop further if the situation is not resolved," said Mirza Azizul Islam, a former economic adviser to the government.
Meanwhile, BNP leader Khaleda Zia—widow of the independence war's best-known military commander—kicked up a protocol row Sunday, citing "security concerns" to cancel a meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee.
On Monday, a minor explosion outside the hotel in Dhaka where Mr. Mukherjee is staying raised security concerns.
But Bangladeshi and Indian officials quickly dismissed the incident, saying it was a Molotov cocktail thrown by a protester and that it had nothing to do with Mr. Mukherjee's presence.
The Indian president is
expected to pressure Bangladesh to allow transit facilities to connect its mainland to the northeastern Indian states to address development and security concerns. Also on the agenda will be the sharing of river waters, according to foreign ministry officials.
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